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I fear Alzheimer's the most..It is such a terrible frightening thing on oneself in the early stages and such a terrible heartbreaking scene and burden on the loved ones.as hey watch me lose touch with everything.
To think that my brain is slowly dying off cell by cell ..My memories, my ability to recognize where I am, or my own child who I nourished, loved and taught slowly becomes a stranger to me ..Just knowing with the diagnosis that eventually I would just fade into a vegetative state until the death of my brain reached the part that controls my breathing and heart beat also died is so very fearful to me..
I fear Alzheimer's the most..It is such a terrible frightening thing on oneself in the early stages and such a terrible heartbreaking scene and burden on the loved ones.as hey watch me lose touch with everything.
I fear back problems the most.. ironic since I have back problems.
I am one of the small percent that regular treatment doesn't help.
I've had non-invasive surgery, I've had 2 invasive with hardware and have had one of the worst months out of the almost 10 years of living like this.
I have no quality of life. 44 and I haven't food shopped in weeks. I only go out for Dr appointments. My husband has about had it. My teenage daughter doesn't have a mother that can do things with her. I took her up the street to Old Navy the other day; I had my sunglasses on to hide the tears coming out of my eyes. We weren't even in there long, she knew what she wanted, grabbed it and we left.
Yesterday was bad, nothing I did took the excruciating pain away. I was ready to go to the ER but didn't due to being left with high medical bills since the local hospital isn't in network. As I sat there crying in pain, I wished I had something diagnosable where I knew what the treatment was as well as odds.
ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease ...... as there is no known cure as it totally paralyses you inside your body as only the eye's work. Give em hell Neuralstem as they start Stem Cell clinical trials this summer against ALS in actual humans with the disease.
I don't worry about Alheimers or dementia at all, assuming everyone is kind enough to not tell me I have it. Most folks I have met with dementia, are not bothered by it at all. It is much worse on the family.
I fear Multiple Sclerosis the most. Seems like its victims suffer a slow, frustrating physical decline, while their minds are sharp as a tack. Neuropathy - so painful. I fear cancer...my mother went through it, my aunt is going through it...I feel like I've got a time bomb inside me.
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